and :reddit-logo: posters were blaming “ghost fishing fleets from china” :desolate:
Ah yes, China’s secret nuclear powered stealth fishing fleet completely capable of sneaking through Japanese, South Korean, Russian, and US waters
remember that time the sky turned red for a bit because of lights reflecting off water and Redditors legit thought it was a superweapon or something lol?
I could be wrong but I think the implication is that after that reported population boom something happened to that environment that made it significantly less hospitable to crabs, and now there’s nowhere near the number we expected
This is terrible. Henry Kissinger is 99 years old and we need every single one of those crabs on standby.
It’s likely due to the cold pool of water on the bottom of the Bering Sea moving north (i.e. shrinking) due to climate change at a faster rate than the juveniles can migrate, which leaves them extremely vulnerable to predation by various groundfish species. Surely losing (even temporarily, depending on how effective a rebuilding plan can even be in the face of changes caused by rapid ecosystem shifts compared to just overexploitation) a cornerstone of the most important industry in Alaska will cause the state government to start taking climate change seriously right?
Acidification too. They can’t properly form their shells: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crab-larvae-off-oregon-and-washington-suffering-shell-damage-from-ocean-acidification-new-research-shows/
Ah look, acidification has moved on up from fucking over stony corals to fucking over less fickle and fragile organisms such as giant crabs, how reassuring and totally not alarming.
a cornerstone of the most important industry in Alaska will cause the state government to start taking climate change seriously right?
Those darn sneaky Russians and Chinese snuck over and stole 1 billion of our crabs and that’s I am arguing for a 1.5 trillion dollar military budget
Just mint more Crabs :stonks-up:
Libertarian voice: Crabs never should have been decoupled from the goldfish standard
